How To Search Flickr Group Photos By Tag

Flickr Group Pool Photo Search By Tag

The tutorial shows you how to search group pool photos on Flickr using a tag. You may want to use this feature when you a running a Flickr Group and want to be fetch a selection of photos based on the tag.

For tagging to be manageable I would advise the group moderator to put together some guidelines for tagging so the tags are consistent. For example, it is not particularly useful if say you have photos of a local church and some people tag it variously as “St Leonards”, “Saint Leonards”, “St Leonards Church”, “Saint Leonards Church”, “Saint”, “Leornards” and “Church”. In this case we have 7 possible tags for the same subject. If the group moderator comes up with a sensible list of suggestions for tags then the problem is mitigated. In any case group members can add tags to other people’s photos so you can ensure that a photos will have the correct tag among the others but a good tagging strategy will reduce clutter and a proliferation of tags.

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Slickr Flickr does not support a search by both tag and photoset – but it could be added. The code could either make two fetches one for the set; and another for the tag and then return photos that appears in both search. Or it could fetch all the photos in a set and then filter out any than did not have the desired tag(s).

Right now the workaround would be to tag everything in the set with a tag that is the same as the setid and then a normal multi-tag search:

But I’m struggling with one last hurdle. How to make the shortcode into a link, so I could have the word cheese on my site, which only when clicked on would then display the results found for ‘cheese’. (target self or searchpage).

A prod in the right direction would be greatly appreciated as I’ve reached a dead end.